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Mexico

'Weeping Women' remember Mexico's missing students

A group of 43 women dressed to depict “La Llorona” or “The Weeping Woman” took part in a street theatre performance in Mexico City on Saturday, designed to act as a poignant reminder of a tragic…

Tanzania

Babies targeted as FGM victims get younger, say campaigners

Babies are among the victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), campaigners claim, reflecting a growing trend of younger girls being targeted.

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And also... Sprightly snakes, Schwarzenegger's swap swipe and soccer sexism

Why Trump and Putin are molar opposites, the secret of a winning poker strategy and what it is like having a snake stuck in your ear.

World News

Killed in the name of honour: burned alive by her mother

What could drive a mother to douse her own daughter in petrol and set her alight?

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Russia

Russia softens the law on domestic violence

The country's lower house has passed a bill decriminalising some forms of domestic violence. It will make battery of a relative a civil and not criminal offence when the victim suffered no serious har

Russia

Russian Duma backs draft law easing penalty for domestic violence

The Russian parliament’s lower house the Duma has overwhelming backed a draft law that would ease some penalties for domestic violence.

Germany

Germany plans more transparency over gender pay

The German government has approved new legislation that will force companies to be more transparent about salaries paid to male and female employees.

Austria

Special unit to investigate mass sexual assaults in Austria

The new police unit are looking for six perpetrators of non-European appearance in relation to the New Year's Eve attacks against 18 women.

India

Claims of mass New Year assaults on Indian women attributed to "western" copycats

A state minister in India dismisses claims of sexual assaults in Bengaluru as young men copying western behaviour and clothing

France

The who, what, why, where and when of Jacqueline Sauvage

Germany

'Casual kicker': Berlin metro attack suspect detained by police

Authorities in Berlin say they have arrested the man suspected of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs in an underground station in the German capital.

Afghanistan

Five women airport workers gunned down in Afghanistan

A spokesman for the governor of Kandahar says the women were in charge of searching female travellers at Kandahar airport.

World News

Turkey to Buenos Aires: worldwide rallies to protest violence against women

The UN is kicking off two weeks of actions to raise awareness of the large-scale cost to societies of psychological, physical and sexual violence against women and…

Turkey

Turkey withdraws controversial 'child bride' bill

Turkey’s governing AK Party is withdrawing a controversial bill on underage marriage.

Turkey

Turkey's AK Party withdraws controversial bill on underage marriage

Opposition and rights groups have said the legislation could allow men accused of sexually abusing girls to avoid punishment.

Cult

Glitz, glamour and women's rights at Pakistan Fashion week

Mukhtaran Mai dedicated campaigner for women's rights

Iraq

UN centre fights for women traumatised by IS militants

As Iraqi forces close in on the militant-held city of Mosul, a support centre for women and girls in Dahuk is gearing up to receive women and girls who have been held captive and sexually…

Europe News

Yazidi IS survivors win EU's rights prize

MEPs have decided that two Yazidi women are the winners of the EU’s annual human rights prize.

Libya

Libya: Freed ISIL migrant girl relives kidnap ordeal

The horror of life in the clutches of ISIL has been described by a 12-year-old girl, one of a group of Eritrean female captives of the extremists to have been freed by pro-government forces in…

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Chileans, Bolivians march against femicide

Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Chile’s and Bolivia’s capitals on Wednesday (October 19) in solidarity with an Argentine movement protesting gender-related violence after the rape and murde